John is spot on: If your model has ExpressCache (a small SSD used for caching) then installing Windows from USB flash drives will not work, because Windows Setup gets confused by that small SSD and tries to use it as boot drive -- but it cannot physically be booted. Thus you get exactly the problem you're seeing.

The easiest solution is to install from a DVD instead, since that avoids the confusion of Windows Setup.

If you don't have a DVD drive, so you have to install from a USB flash drive, there are various workarounds described in the first two posts of this thread.

There is also a comprehensive Windows 7/8 install guide specifically for Samsung laptops in post #40 of that same thread.

Please post in that thread if you have any further questions, since this thread is specifically for Samsung Recovery Solution, which is not a factor in your situation.

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John is spot on: If your model has ExpressCache (a small SSD used for caching) then installing Windows from USB flash drives will not work, because Windows Setup gets confused by that small SSD and tries to use it as boot drive -- but it cannot physically be booted. Thus you get exactly the problem you're seeing.

The easiest solution is to install from a DVD instead, since that avoids the confusion of Windows Setup.

If you don't have a DVD drive, so you have to install from a USB flash drive, there are various workarounds described in the first two posts of this thread.

There is also a comprehensive Windows 7/8 install guide specifically for Samsung laptops in post # 40 of that same thread

Please post in that thread if you have any further questions, since this thread is specifically for Samsung Recovery Solution, which is not a factor in your situation.

Hi,
i'm looking for the versions of Samsung recovery that were specified in this thread.
the 6.1.0.1 and the 6.0.12.18
i have searched everywhere and no success.
the latest version that i could get from Samsung is 6.12.10
can someone help me?
i have issues with the backup of windows 10 to init partition, got one big mess.

2) I've got an issue - my Samsung NP3530EC-A0CDX (Series 3) won't go to recovery with F4. I think I've done everything like:
* SRS6 (6.0.12.4) - both used directly on SSD which has been "mirrored" from original HDD, and clean SSD (diskpart -> clean -> convert gpt), whole process described in link above was almost fine, after all laptop reacts tapping F4 key only when BIOS -> Secure Boot & Fast Boot options are disable, but it.... turns off and 2 seconds later on,
* SRS5 - seems to be designed for Windows 7, no UEFI boot however, so I rejected this path,
* SRS7 - I'm able to CTRL ALT F10 and execute USB creation tool, but after that it seems like it can't format my USB pendrive (probably because it's still boot device, lol); another USB drive simply is not recognized, so this seems to be dead end as well.

From what I know - sometimes FlashROMs need to be reprogrammed with default ROMs (corrupted code), but I can't find any BIOS to be downloaded to this laptop, even with Samsung Update software. BTW, I've got flash chip programmer, so I'm able to flash ROM directly onboard. Loading defaults in BIOS simply won't help and laptop still turns off once F4 is pressed during bootup. Small question here - anyone with similar laptop here to be able to dump own BIOS and upload it as a binary file ?

Maybe it counts, but SRS6 process is not 100% clean due to file
api-ms-win-crt-string-l1-1-0.dll
missing (I've got that message as soon as laptop boots from USB).

Any clues what is happening here ?
Recovery files are intact in place (I can mount recovery partition, so I can see all files). One more strange thing is - recovery partitions are named differently, it's like first one (bigger one) is REC_1, and second one (1 gig) is RECOVERY2 - I write from memory, so names can be a bit different, but I show you a concept how they are named (not fully automatically, like REC_1, REC_2 etc).
Cheers.

P.S.
Few hours later ;-)
I've managed NVRAM reset without BIOS/Micom update, only because flashing was unsuccessful - silly, I've spend 2 pounds for paying via PayPal to some forum points that was necessary to download a file, which didn't work for me either, lol. After that Samsung started to respond properly to F4 tapping.
If someone is interested, I've done command under Shell:
sflash64 /cvar /patch
(and Secure Boot must have been disabled in BIOS first).

2) I've got an issue - my Samsung NP3530EC-A0CDX (Series 3) won't go to recovery with F4. I think I've done everything like:
* SRS6 (6.0.12.4) - both used directly on SSD which has been "mirrored" from original HDD, and clean SSD (diskpart -> clean -> convert gpt), whole process described in link above was almost fine, after all laptop reacts tapping F4 key only when BIOS -> Secure Boot & Fast Boot options are disable, but it.... turns off and 2 seconds later on,
* SRS5 - seems to be designed for Windows 7, no UEFI boot however, so I rejected this path,
* SRS7 - I'm able to CTRL ALT F10 and execute USB creation tool, but after that it seems like it can't format my USB pendrive (probably because it's still boot device, lol); another USB drive simply is not recognized, so this seems to be dead end as well....
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